Isekai Prime, episode 11

I’m gonna need a program to keep all these busty blonde hot chicks straight. Also, why does Loli Princess have burned shoulders? The burned cheeks seem to be a poor rendition of blushing, but the shoulders are weird.

Speaking of lolis, Our Magical Daughter suddenly got her first period, and after getting everything explained by Our Busty Blonde Merchant Waifu, announces her intention to have Our Shopping Hero’s baby. Yeah, that comes as a surprise to exactly nobody. As does his rejection of Our Furry-Big-Boobed Orange Catgirl’s advances with the usual “you’re too young” excuse that has never stopped a girl before. And he doesn’t actually reject Daughter except to say that she needs about five years before she’s really ripe for baby-making…

Character art is frequently off, and there’s no explanation for why they have the three big tubs side-by-side indoors but still have the barrel bathtubs outside, and the only thing I’ll say about The Big Battle is that it was stupid and poorly done. Seriously, why?

Speaking of “why?”, is this really the time for another dramatic plot shift? With only two episodes left to go?

(at least we’ll always have Myaley…)

Location, location, location

Since setting up my new Pihole, it’s blocked over 64% of DNS queries. That’s… a lot higher than the old one. I did add some new filters when I updated, but it shouldn’t be that different. But it turns out that one of the new filters included inference.location.live.net, which is responsible for fully 71% of the blocked requests.

And I don’t even keep the gaming PC running 24x7. Thanks, Microsoft Spyware. I’m sure it would only be a few percent if it weren’t blocked, but it’s really upset that it can’t get through, and refuses to back off.

(#2 on the block list (at 6%) is diag.meethue.com, and I could have sworn I told my Hue smartbulb controller not to send in “anonymous diagnostics”…)

Upcoming Anime

Based entirely on the blurbs and videos at LiveChart.me…

First off, things that are continuing:

• The Apothecary Diaries 2 YES
• A-Rank Adventure Harem Yes

Second, sequels:

• Bye, Bye Earth 2 NOT A CHANCE
• Loser Ranger 2 No; season 1 got stuck in a tournament arc.
• Slime-Killing Witch 2 Yes; the novels eventually fell apart, but probably not this season. I wish they’d animate the Beelzebub spinoff, though.

🎶 …And The Rest… 🎶

(by claimed start date)

• Twins HinaHima: almost no info about this “weird shit happens to two schoolgirls” show. Trailer doesn’t impress. No

• The Unaware Atelier Master: “kicked out of the hero’s party, it turns out I have cheat-level skills in everything except combat”. Snore. Highly Unlikely

• Sword Of The Demon Hunter: something something Highlander something protecting sister and step-sister across time from heart-eating demons something. Runs for two cours, decent art. Maybe?

• Once Upon A Witch’s Death: forget that 100 friends trope; this time, Shouty Loli Witch is going to make 1,000 people so happy they cry, or die trying. Highly unlikely

• Catch Me at the Ballpark!: romancing the beer girl. No

• Please Put Them On, Takamine-san: schoolgirl panties time machine fan-service. Not making that up. Unlikely

• The Beginning After The End Season 1: “reincarnated from one fantasy world to another, this former king develops awesome cheat powers as a child and…”. Highly unlikely

• Your Forma: Cyber Cop Gal goes memory-diving with android partner. Light-novel adaptation that’s explicitly skipping book one. They’re putting some money into the trailer animation, at least. Maybe

• The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside By My Fiancé And Sold To Another Kingdom: the trailers put me to sleep, so I don’t know what this is about. No

• MIRU: Paths To My Future: five-episode anthology series that looks like Quantum Leap with a robot lead. No

• The Brilliant Healer’s New Life In The Shadows: “kicked out of the hero’s party, I opened a clinic in the slums to use my cheat-level healing powers”. Yeah, whatever. No

• Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty: misfit gals at private princess school form rock band, shout. No

• Raccoon Team Calcal: well, it’s no Red Cat Ramen, that’s for sure. No

• Can A Boy-Girl Friendship Survive?: childhood friendship turns to wacky love hijinks as the hormones kick in. No

• The Dinner Table Detective: oh, god, no, she’s a screamer. That’s like twice as funny as shouting, said no one ever. Anyway, rookie cop by day, rich society gal by night, teamed up with her genius butler. Hell, No

• Everyday HOST CLUB: boywhores. Not a chance

• YAIBA: Samurai Legend: this looks like a mashup of every “funny” shounen fighting story ever. No

• Anne Shirley: the latest iteration of the Japanese fascination with Anne of Green Gables. No

• Gag Manga Biyori GO: with a title like that, what could go wrong? No

• GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS: note that the all-caps English is the actual Japanese title, and the trailer just reinforces that sense of self-conscious “coolness”. The plot description reads like insane troll logic to justify a fighting game, and that’s exactly what it is. Not a chance

• Kowloon Generic Romance: boy meets girl meets weird shit. No

• From Old Country Bumpkin To Master Swordsman: trailer suggests it’s somewhere between A-Rank Adventure Harem and S-Rank Daddy’s Girl. Maybe?

• I’m The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire!: the key element of this ridiculously-chaste isekai power fantasy is that the hero is wrong-genre-savvy. He was betrayed by everyone in his first life, and believes that everything about his new SF/magic isekai life is a blessing from Reincarnation Dude to help him achieve his “selfish” “evil” goals. The female characters are easy on the eyes, but the most he ever does with them (over decades) is grope his robot maid’s clothed chest occasionally. Maybe?

• Princession Orchestra: this generic-looking magical-girl show is getting four cours in a row. No

• To Be Hero X: Chinese-made pure-CGI Western-style superhero tournament show. Not a chance

• Lazarus: someone’s putting some money into this race-for-a-cure near-future self-consciously cool thriller. The trailer looks like Cowboy Bebop seduced The White Plague and abandoned their kid. Maybe

• Witch Watch: wacky school magical romance hijinks, extra shouty. Two cours in a row. No

• Maebashi Witches: another magical-girl show, heavy on the CGI, where they are both florists and idol singers. No

• Yandere Dark Elf: She Chased Me All the Way From Another World!: The word “yandere” does not appear in the original title, and the trailer just shows her being dere-dere and mostly naked, with a whole collection of isekai babes hanging out with our schoolboy former hero. Unexpectedly, main girl shares her name with this season’s isekai elf. Maybe for the eye candy

• Makina-san’s A Love Bot?!: most popular girl in class seeks robot otaku for repairs, romance. Trailer is covered with steam and shouting. Unlikely

• The Mononoke Lecture Logs Of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries: post-war Tokyo exorcist/detective/teacher partners up with schoolgirl. This is apparently a prequel to some other show I never watched. No

• ZatsuTabi -That’s Journey-: cute college girl and failed manga artist goes traveling with cute friends. Appears to be sponsored by local tourist associations. Unlikely

• My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: spinoff series. Unlikely

• Summer Pockets: the trailer looks exactly like a visual-novel adaptation, and the caption for it name-drops Clannad, Little Busters, and Angel Beats, so, yeah, guy moves to new town, meets a bunch of quirky girls, and uncovers his hidden memories. No

• #Compass2.0 Animation Project: honestly, the name was enough to put me off, and the blurb made it worse. By the time I reached the trailer with the heavily-autotuned robo-doll, I gave up. No

• The Shiunji Family Children: “I wish I didn’t have five sisters.” “They’re not biological sisters.” “Ooh, harem hijinks!” No

• Apocalypse Hotel: loli robo-doll runs hotel in a post-human Tokyo. There’s an artist on Pixiv who draws really cool post-human Tokyo scenes; the backgrounds look just like that. Unlikely

• Me And The Alien MuuMuu: cat-shaped alien sneaks into a college girl’s dorm to learn technology and create wacky hijinks. No

• Moonrise: high-concept action series pitting an AI-run Earth utopia against scrappy terrorist moon-rebels. Teaser trailer contains dick-all about any actual story, and just name-drops people who’ve done other things. Netflix is putting serious money into this, so there’s a good chance it will suck like most of the other original shows they’ve funded and meddled with. Unlikely

• A Ninja And An Assassin Under One Roof: cute ninja gal on the run moves in with busty assassin gal for wacky yuri hijinks. The trailer includes a scene where ninja tracks assassin to her high school… by the smell of her panties. No

• Teogonia: “it wasn’t until most of my friends were dead that I suddenly realized I was an OP isekai hero with memories of my old life”. No

• Mono: cute girls taking cute photos, and shouting. No

• Food For the Soul: cute college girls eating cute food. No

That’s 3 yes, 6 maybe, 8 unlikely, 3 highly unlikely, and a whole bunch of nope. Not the most promising of seasons, to put it mildly.

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